Canadian basketball player

Kelly Olynyk

Kelly Tyler Olynyk is a Canadian professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the captain of the Canada men's national basketball team. He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, where he earned All-American honors in 2013. After forgoing his senior season, Olynyk was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the 13th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft before being immediately traded to the Boston Celtics. In July 2017, he signed with the Miami Heat, where he helped the team reach the 2020 NBA Finals.

Born

1991

April 19

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Key dates

1991 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

65 The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.
531 Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
1024 Election of Pope John XIX following the death of his brother Pope Benedict VIII.
1042 Following the attempt of Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates to depose his wife and empress Zoe Porphyrogenita, a popular uprising in Constantinople breaks out with the intention to restore her.

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The world in 1991

When Kelly arrived

april 10 Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
april 10 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
april 14 The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
april 2 Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 19

Elizabeth Dilling 1894–1966 American author and activist (died 1966) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993) Fernando Botero 1932–2023 Colombian painter and sculptor (died 2023) Getúlio Vargas 1882–1954 Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (died 1954) James Franco 1978– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter James Heckman 1944– American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Jayne Mansfield 1933–1967 American model and actress (died 1967) Jiroemon Kimura 1897– Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (died 2013) Leon Henkin 1921– American logician (died 2006)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1991

Álvaro Soler 1991– Spanish singer-songwriter Anne-Marie 1991– English singer-songwriter C. J. Anderson 1991– American football player Dave Leduc 1991– Canadian martial artist Hansika Motwani 1991– Indian actress Jessie Diggins 1991– American cross-country skier Jiang Yuyuan 1991– Chinese gymnast Kawhi Leonard 1991– American basketball player Konrad Hurrell 1991– Tongan rugby league player

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